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"Pedro R. Quaresma" wrote: > > How's the family? Hope everything is fine, and the weather better > than in Portugal. Hey, long time no write. Family is fine and the weather has been HOT but I can't complain as we have air conditioning. > I made a huge pause on this subject, cause I was waiting for the > important items to arrive. They have at last! I am now the proud > owner of a Roland MT32, a Roland Interface card and a Roland SCC1! :) > Any special recommendations before I install them? :) Congrats! You should be able to install them both at once but keep in mind that the MIDI ports are by default the same (port 0x330). Since general MIDI sound was supported in later games, and the later games allow you to usually pick the port GMIDI is on, I would recommend that you leave the MIDI card/MT-32 set to 330 and change the SCC1 to some other supported address, maybe 320 or 300. If you don't have a manual for the SCC1 then I can look in mine to tell you the settings of the DIP switches. For testing purposes, you should actually install them seperately and test them BEFORE trying to get them both in the same machine. Start with the SCC1 first and run Doom or some other game that supports GMIDI; leave it at the default port, select GMIDI, and play the game. Should sound okay. Then remove the SCC1, put in the MIDI card (hopefully set at it's default 330) and play any of the later Sierra games, like Silpheed or King's Quest 4 or later, or some other supported game, and you should hear very nice music and possibly some "messages" on your MT-32 as it is reprogrammed. Once you know both of your hardware is good, THEN try to get them both in by changing the default 330 address on the SCC1. > I also have two questions left: I won't be able to plug _both_ to my > sound system, will I? If your stereo has multiple inputs on your receiver, of course you can. No game will use both of them at the same time so you can switch as necessary. If you only have one connection on your stereo, you can use a Y-cable, but this reduces the sound output of both devices by half and I don't recommend it. For both devices to a single output, you would be better off with a simple mixer. I use the MidiMan multimixer 10 (http://www.midiman.net/products/m-audio/multi10.php) but something as simple as the multimixer 6 (http://www.midiman.net/products/m-audio/multi6.php) should work too. I bought my 10 for $99 at www.audiomidi.com, so the "street" prices are lower than the MSRP you see on the manufacturer's website. And using a mixer means that you can hook up a Sound Blaster as well and hear them all at the same time -- Sound Blaster for sound effects playing at the same time you hear wonderful music (some games allow you to choose different devices for effects and music). Wing Commander 1 and 2 in particular use this to great effect, especially if you have the Speech Pack. It's cool hearing cinematic music taking a turn for the worse as your damage mounts, and your radio crackles with your enemies mocking you and your wingmen screaming as they go down :-) > Also, will I benefit in any way from adding a Roland MPU401? I've > seen a scheme somewhere (wish I could recall where) that showed a > computer plugged to a MPU401 and the MPU401 plugged to the MT32... The MPU401 is just Roland's MIDI card -- if yours works, then there's no reason to get an MPU401. Let me know how it goes, and what games you feel are more significantly enhanced by the music, I'm curious... -- http://www.MobyGames.com/ The world's most comprehensive gaming database project. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent to you because you are currently subscribed to the swcollect mailing list. To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of 'unsubscribe swcollect' Archives are available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
